AS MOSELEY signed off at Billesley Common for another season with a first victory in four attempts in their fractious rivalry with London Scottish, Kevin Maggs was left to reflect on a job well done.

Moseley’s victory, their fourth in five play-off games, finally released the throttling grip the Exiles had over Maggs’ men and also condemned the Londoners to at least one more anxious week.

While Maggs and Mose can look forward to a final-day trip to Devon to meet up with Plymouth, where a single point will secure top spot in Pool C, Scottish must grab tigerish Esher by the tail to secure their own safety.

And judging by their disinterested start to this match and the combination of desperation and dejection with which they finished it, that will be no easy task.

Particularly after Esher breathed new life into their cause with a demolition of Albion. If they do the same on Saturday it will be Scottish and not the Surrey side that goes down.

What is clear for Maggs, however, is that Moseley will not and do not deserve to share that fate after a solid first year in charge in which the club’s second tier status has never looked particularly threatened.

“I think it is clear Moseley belong in this division,” the head coach said. “We have played some fantastic rugby although at times we have let ourselves down.

“We have conceded the odd soft try here and there and it has cost us during the year – and some of the decisions have cost us.

“However, on the whole I am pleased because everyone keeps telling me we have not been in this situation at this stage of the season before, in terms of where we are going forward.

“From that point of view I am really proud of the players, the effort they have put in for each other and everybody that has helped me get to where we are.”

That effort was not matched by accuracy during the first half as Mose slipped 17-5 down with only David Lyons’s try to show for 50 minutes work.

But the home forwards atomised the visitors in the second half to secure three more scores for Mike Ellery, Adam Caves and a penalty try for what was a sweet win.